Snap-hook



G. L. POND.

' (No Model.)

SNAP HOOK.

No. 305,844. Patented Sept. 30,1884.

$k a. $2M,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEQ CHARLES L. PON D, OF BUFFALO, SEW YORK.

SNAP-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent, No. 305,8i4 dated September 30, 1884.

Application filed October 20, 1882. (N model.)

' To alt whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. Poem, of the city of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain 1m- 5 proveinents in Snap-Hooks, of which the fo1 lowing is a specification. This invention relates to improvements in snap-hooks, having for its object the production of a snap-hook possessing the qualities of simplicity, durability, and cheapness; and to this end my invention consists of a snap-hook having a shank which terminates at one end in a strap-loop, and at theother end in ahook, and has Within ita longitudinal chamber open toward the hook, and in which is fastened one wing of a U-spring, the outer wing constituting the spring-tongue of the snap-hook.

My invention is clearly shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2. is a longitudinal section illustrating the arrangement of parts of my device. 7

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the drawings. in the drawings, A is the shank. B is the straight and fastened to the shank of the snaphook bya rivet which passes through the two parts.

Having fully described my in vention, what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent The within-described snap-hook, consisting of the chambered shank A, loop B, hook 0, pin E, and spring-tongue F H, the part H lying beneath the pin E in chamber D, all substantially as described.

CHAS. L. POND.

Witnesses:

Ones. F. GEYER, Trrno. L. Porn. 

